Jeff Morrow, star of The Giant Claw (1957), has a few other zany titles to his credit. This Island Earth (1955), The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) and Kronos (1957). We also couldn’t resist posting a clip from Morrow’s aptly titled 1971 opus Octaman.

Trailers Jeff Morrow, Kronos, Octaman, The Creature Walks Among Us, The Giant Claw, This Island Earth

Mara Corday, co-star of this months CCT feature The Giant Claw (1957), has a few other genre classics in her filmography. Below are the trailers for the giant insect films Tarantula (1955) and The Black Scorpion (1957).

Trailers Mara Corday, Tarantula, The Black Scorpion, The Giant Claw

The Giant Claw is the latest movie featured here on Cool Cinema Trash. Below is the trailer and a scene from this low-budget sci-fi classic.

trailer Fred F. Sears, Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Sam Katzman, The Giant Claw

An endless array of low-budget atomic beasts, oversized insects and invaders from space assaulted movie houses and drive-in screens during the 1950’s. But it’s hard to imagine any single threat more preposterous that the goofy, winged wonder at the center of The Giant Claw (1957).

Somewhere in the great frozen north (location courtesy of stock footage), Mitch MacAfee (Jeff Morrow) pilots a jet fighter as part of a test run for a new radar tracking station. On the ground, foxy mathematician Sally Caldwell (Mara Corday) and several air force personnel scrutinize his progress. A narrator (director Fred F. Sears) helps set the stage, “An electronics engineer, a radio officer, a mathematician and systems analyst, a radar operator, a couple of plotters. People doing a job, well, efficiently. Serious, having fun. Doing a job. Situation normal… for the moment.” Read complete review…

Cranky Critters, review Fred F. Sears, Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Sam Katzman, The Giant Claw